On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Martin Little wrote:
> Because they fear Microsoft will use it as an excuse?
Have you not heard of the "Look and Feel" lawsuits of the 80's?
In fact it was Apple who sued Microsoft claiming that win3.1
stole Mac's LAF for a GUI interface. The result was Apple lost
because you can not copyright a look and feel. End of story.
You can sue anyone for anything and you do not have to have
any legal basis for doing so. That is the realy issue here.
> They know that Microsoft will sue them for infringing on their
> look and feel. Much the same as Apple would probably defend
> the Mac L&F if Sun had not put the same restriction on that
> Swing L&F.
>
> There is a large difference between trying to prove that someone's
> L&F resembles yours and saying, these people made a carbon copy
> of our L&F and are letting people use it on other platforms.
I agree. It is ugly. I would not want to use it myself. Still, you
should have the right to use it if you want to. Microsoft should
not be able to tell you how to run your software.
> Why would you want to use the windows L&F anyways. Sheesh, ugly.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> ../Martin
>
> Moses DeJong wrote:
>
> > This is total BS. Microsoft did not write any of the swing code so they
> > are not in a position to "allow" anything. Sun wrote the code and now
> > Sun will not let you use it on non windows systems because they fear
> > Microsoft will just use it as an excuse to sue them. Where have you been
> > the last couple of years? Microsoft will stop at nothing to slow down
> > or kill java development because it is a threat to the bottom line. If
> > people can write apps that run every where then why would they use
> > window 95-98? Face it, this is just another example of how Microsoft
> > is hurting cross platform java.
> >
> > On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, [iso-8859-1] Lothar Klaffenböck wrote:
> >
> > > Microsoft dosen't allow SUN to use the Windows-L&F on Solaris-Unix. Maybe
> > > there is the same licence-problem on Linux. I suggest to use the Metal-L&F,
> > > so the user can see it at the first look that this is a high quality
> > > software.
>
